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By Admin On 11 Jun 2014 in Education
The
Ministry of Education’s National Textbook Loan Scheme for 2014/2015
gets an addition of $430 million contract award approved on Monday for the procurement and distribution of textbooks for students.
The local companies bags the award
Kingston Bookshop Limited ($233,615,387), Carlong Publishers (Caribbean)
Limited ($94,000,878), and Book Wizard Limited ($102,374,500).
The recent contract will be an addition
to the Ministry of Education’s existing stock that is loaned to students
in grades seven to eleven and are expected to be distributed to schools
in the latter part of August. The earlier approval by the cabinet for
the procurement of books for students in grades one to six, which are
currently being distributed to primary schools ahead of the start of the
new school year. The Ministry of Education will spend nearly $1 billion
on the procurement of textbooks, this financial year.
New copies of textbooks will be allotted
by schools after the rotation of five-year and seven-year. Local
providers will assist in the repair works of textbooks during these
periods according to the Ministry of Education. The Minister of
Education Ronald Thwaites, himself conducted a meeting with the parents
and students to ensure that textbooks on loan are handled with care and
even requested grade eleven students to return books loaned to them.Read complete story at http://www.tendersontime.com/blog-detail/jamaica-governmentwards-430-m-contract-textbooks-10.php
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